I don't know what it is with hemlocks. I remember a great night's sleep stealth camping in a hemlock grove a year and a half ago. It rained in the night and I didn't even notice except that my tent was all saggy in the morning. I woke up at about 0430, went out to water a tree, decided to start packing up by headlamp, crawled back in the tent to start the process, started to change from sleeping baselayer to hiking baselayer with my bag over me for warmth, and woke up again four hours later. Except for the few minutes thinking about getting up to hike, I must have slept for about 12 hours straight.

This was in the Burroughs Range in the Catskills. The loop is about 15 miles and 6500 feet of elevation gain, but there's a side trip up to Giant Ledge and Panther Mountain that adds another four miles and 2200 feet and is totally worth it. It was a great trip. I wound up hiking for a while the next day with John Burroughs's granddaughter.

It's one of my favorite hikes anywhere. Do it in "shoulder season" or midweek - it can be crowded on summer weekends. The views are awesome. And it's got some fun vertical scrambles. (If you think vertical scrambles are fun.) If there's any threat of ice at all, bring crampons. Microspikes aren't enough for the east sides of Cornell and Slide.

I can't remember.....I was sleeping.

I love waking to song birds
earlier morning sun
can't imagine life without them

Once after a fraternity brown mule party I woke up the following afternoon in the walk in closet in my bedroom. Brown mule party is when everyone brings a bottle of wine or liquor and a mixer and it's all dumped into a big cooler with fruit.

I think my best trail night for sleeping was at Fontana, had the tent up on the hill, severe thunder storms, thunder, lightning, and driving rain beating on the tent.....tried my best to stay awake for the show but quickly fell into never never land....love those kind of nights.

many years ago I was grouse hunting in Pennsylvania. My buddy and I would walk up a old logging road that spiraled up the mountain. We each shot a few grouse on the way up. The top of the mountain was a open field with one lone pine tree in the middle with the branches not starting until about 4 feet off the ground. We sat under the tree each facing a different direction while having lunch. Leaning against the tree we both fell asleep. Woke up about a hour or so later. During my nap it had snowed and everything was covered in fresh white snow. It was absoutley beautiful and one of my favorite experiences in the woods.

Me too. I recall once when I was a teenager, I was really really tired. I went to bed and I think I fell asleep before my head hit the pillow. It was if I put my head on the pillow and it was instantly morning - like going through a time machine and the whole night passed instantly. I recall feeling ripped off, like I lost the whole night's sleep. So for me the best night's "sleep" is when I can enjoy the going to sleep and waking up parts - i.e. the parts when I'm not sleeping.

Fell asleep about 4 pm at Bradley gap in the Roan Highlands. Woke up at around 6 am the next day.

Back in college majored in Computer Science before PCs, so we would go to lab when terminals were available and work all night. Remember getting out of class on Friday afternoon and not waking up until sometime Saturday afternoon as my body tired to catch up.

The funniest part was apparently I thought I had gone into the bathroom as I found out after I woke up that I had peed in the corner of the closet. lol

Hmm Sleep no 6 on an air mattress when the wife wasn't ripping a new one to the oldies... [IMG:http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg275/MarkSwarbrick/Fun%20Post/oopsowl_zpsaz1d6tev.jpg]

I don't sleep well on trail...at least not yet.

Perhaps the best night's sleep occurred the first night after graduating jump school.

Tips for sleeping on the trail by Andrew Skurka

andrewskurka.com/2015/tips-for…-backcountry-sd-live-512/

TJ

Your icon is apt.

I need one with a bow and arrow that says the same thing about hunting.